Re: Any experience buying from CAMDEN-GREY ESSENTIAL OILS?

I lost the will to live less than half way through the FAQ - Iíve never ordered from these people and Iím not likely to based on reading that guff. Even the most arrogant European suppliers are not usually that bad!

Re: Any experience buying from CAMDEN-GREY ESSENTIAL OILS?

I remember reading that several years ago and feeling the same way. Have never ordered from them. They must have had some really bad experiences to write something like that, and maybe they don't realize how off-putting it is.

Re: Any experience buying from CAMDEN-GREY ESSENTIAL OILS?

Aha, another unexpected Basenotes delight: this line is from a much longer poem called The Deserted Village, but this particular section concerns the Schoolmaster:

The Village Schoolmaster

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way
With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his mansion, skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school;
A man severe he was, and stern to view,
I knew him well, and every truant knew;
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The days disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd:
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault.
The village all declar'd how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,
And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the person own'd his skill,
For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thund'ring sound
Amazed the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
But past is all his fame. The very spot
Where many a time he triumph'd is forgot.

-- Oliver Goldsmith

It makes rather an affectionate portrait of a stern and difficult man and is the perfect riposte to those of us who thought the aggressive nature of the FAQ in this case were an indication of poor or uncaring service.